Annamalai univ tense after death of 4 students

Annamalai University is on the edge after the death of four north Indian students. The university has shut down its engineering department and packed off boarders to cool down tempers on the campus.

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Cuddalore

March 2, 2010

UPDATED: March 2, 2010 15:05 IST

Annamalai University is on the edge after the death of four north Indian students. The university has shut down its engineering department and packed off boarders to cool down tempers on the campus.

Trouble had been simmering after the vice-chancellor turned down the demand of north Indian students for a holiday on Holi. The death of an engineering student in a road accident inside the campus on Sunday night added fuel to the fire.

After the accident, the student, Gautam Kumar, was admitted to the Annamalai Medical College Hospital. But as his condition worsened, the hospital authorities decided to shift him to Pondicherry. But Kumar died on the way.

Students from north India, who had already had a run-in with the vice-chancellor over he Holi break, went on the rampage, causing damage to an ambulance, the hospital campus and the administrative block.

Police were called in. In the ensuing lathicharge, a student, Sumit Kumar, fell into a river and died after hitting his head against a rock.

Two more bodies were found from a drain near the university on Tuesday.

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